Google Launches Khmer Translation Service
Internet search giant Google on Friday launched a new service that for the first time allows users to instantly translate Khmer script into other languages. Khmer is the most recent addition to the 66-strong collection of languages between which words, sentences or whole websites can be ss='cambodia-color'>...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/google-launches-khmer-translation-service-19417/
Death Threat Made Against CNRP’s Social Media Activist
Thy Sovantha iS accuStomed to being threatened on Facebook. But the 19-year-old CNRP youth activiSt, who became Something of an online celebrity through the popular oppoSition Facebook page “I Love Cambodia Hot NewS,” SayS the lateSt threat againSt her, in which a copy of her paSSport SS='cambodia-color'>...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/death-threat-made-against-cnrps-social-media-activist-51124/
Workers on strike to demand annual leave, administrator be ousted
Around 1,000 garment workers from a factory producing jeans in Bith Trang special Economic Zone in Prey Nop district went on strike to protest against administration chief in their factory. They also demanded the annual leave of 18-21 days per years, which were rejected by ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=MDc5ZDFkY2Q1MzB
Hun Manet meets Vietnamese defense minister in Hanoi
Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh says Vietnam is willing to co-operate with Cambodia in terrorism prevention through exchanges and joint drills, Nhan Dan reported Wednesday. The official organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam said the offer was made at a reception in Hanoi Tuesday ss='cambodia-color'>...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=YjI5OWFhZGMwMTM
Flooding chaos drives families onto safe hill
Recent flooding has claimed another victim, a child in Kratie province who drowned, bringing the total death toll to 30, Keo Vy, cabinet director at the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said yesterday. While water levels are declining across the 12 provinces affected by flooding, ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary and Charles Rollet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/flooding-chaos-drives-families-safe-hill
Tally of goods linked to child labour grows
Four more goods made in Cambodia have been linked to exploitative child labour, adding to a mounting list of items the United states considers to be produced in violation of international rights laws. The mounting number of Cambodian goods found to use child labour runs ss='cambodia-color'>...
Laignee Barron
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/tally-goods-linked-child-labour-grows
Disability benefits to be broadened by gov’t
A Ministry of social Affairs official yesterday announced that, starting next year, the government would offer regular payments of 20,000 riel (about $5) to all disabled Cambodians, a benefit that so far has only been available to retired disabled soldiers. In an announcement that coincided with ss='cambodia-color'>...
Sen David
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/disability-benefits-be-broadened-gov%E2%80%99t
Montagnards emerge from Cambodian jungle to meet UN team
Thirteen ethnic Montagnards have emerged from the jungles of Cambodia, where they hid for more than seven weeks after entering the country from Vietnam to flee alleged persecution, the United Nations and local authorities said saturday. Eight of the Montagnards–including one woman–left their jungle hiding ss='cambodia-color'>...
Big News Network Staff
http://www.bignewsnetwork.com/index.php/sid/228741119
Banh says military shows bias toward the gov’t
Defense Minister Tea Banh joked Tuesday that the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) are “biased to the right people” in protecting the government from destabilizing political agitators. speaking at the annual review of the military’s activities at the Defense Ministry, General Banh said the armed forces ss='cambodia-color'>...
Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/banh-says-military-shows-bias-toward-the-govt-79059/
In logging hotbed, 7 arrested for felling trees
Forestry officials and police on Monday arrested seven men for logging illegally in stung Treng province’s sesan district, officials said Tuesday. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-logging-hotbed-7-arrested-for-felling-trees-80657/
CNRP lawmaker plans to visit controversial detention center
Opposition CNRP lawmaker Eng Chhay Eang says he will visit Phnom Penh’s Prey speu social affairs center today to investigate its controversial treatment of detainees following the death of a recent charge. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ouch Sony and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-lawmaker-plans-to-visit-controversial-detention-center-74001/
Gender equality plan unveiled
In its latest plan to tackle gender disparities, the government applauded its own progress, while still acknowledging persistent challenges, such as a lack of women in leadership roles, and new ones, such as women’s vulnerability to climate change. “The situation of women has improved remarkably over ss='cambodia-color'>...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/gender-equality-plan-unveiled
Int’l circus festival to hit three cities
In May, circus artists from Phnom Penh, Battambang City and siem Reap City will come together for the ninth Tini Tinou International Circus Festival, which was relaunched last year after being canceled in 2011 for financial reasons. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Michelle Vachon
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/intl-circus-festival-to-hit-three-cities-78707/
On Tonle Sap lake, another attack over fishing
The body of a fisherman was discovered floating in the Tonle sap lake in Kompong Chhnang province’s Boribor district on Tuesday after a vicious boating attack, police said Wednesday, in what is the fourth such incident on the lake this year. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-tonle-sap-lake-another-attack-over-fishing-79139/
Disabled education lacking
In an internal report released this week, the Ministry of Education gave itself high marks for the access to education it offers disabled children, offering a rundown of successes in the field dotted with green checkmarks, not unlike a school report card. However, though the ministry ss='cambodia-color'>...
Rebecca Moss
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/disabled-education-lacking
UN says nine new Montagnards add to ‘urgency’ in Ratanakkiri
Two weeks after five Montagnard asylum seekers crossed into Ratanakkiri province from Vietnam, the U.N. said sunday that reports of the arrival of nine more—including three children—added to the situation’s “urgency.” Two ethnic Jarai villagers living in Ratanakkiri said the nine Montagnards—an indigenous group from Vietnam’s ss='cambodia-color'>...
Aun Pheap and Chris Mueller
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/un-says-nine-new-montagnards-add-to-urgency-in-ratanakkiri-76361/
WCS releases 35 Cantor's giant softshell turtles into the wild
The Wildlife Conservation society Cambodia Programme (WCs) has said it safely released 35 Cantor’s giant softshell turtle hatchlings into the wild along the Mekong River on February 17, in Kratie province’s northernmost district of sambor. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/wcs-releases-35-cantors-giant-softshell-turtles-wild
16 women win seats in the 7th National Assembly
There are nearly seven times the number of male lawmakers in the 7th National Assembly compared to female members with 87.2% of seats occupied by men and 12.8% by women in the 125-seat parliament. ss='cambodia-color'>...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501339090/16-women-win-seats-in-the-7th-national-assembly/
Cambodia receives $100 mn ADB loan for skills development
FacebookTwitterEmailShareThe ADB haS approved a $100 million loan to enhance Cambodia&rSquo;S labour force by addreSSing SkillS gapS through reformS in TVET. SS='cambodia-color'>...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501337397/cambodia-receives-100-mn-adb-loan-for-skills-development/
Microfinance association claims NGO statement “biased”
The Cambodia Microfinance Association (CMA) regarded the commentary by NGOs and civil society organizations on the industry as “biased, incomplete, and cherry-picked”, taking just the negative parts of a report produced by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) into account while ignoring ss='cambodia-color'>...
Samban Chandara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/microfinance-association-claims-ngo-statement-biased